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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967-     Subjects     Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Poetry.     Women authors, Black -- Poetry.     Women slaves -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Poetry.     Slavery -- Massachusetts -- History -- 18th century -- Poetry.     American poetry -- 21st century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967-       by title:      The age of Phillis /...       by call number:      811.6 J45a     Search the Web     Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967-     Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Poetry.     Women authors, Black -- Poetry.     Women slaves -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Poetry.     Slavery -- Massachusetts -- History -- 18th century -- Poetry.     American poetry -- 21st century.       MARC Display

The age of Phillis / Honoré Fanonne Jeffers. by Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967- Wesleyan University Press, 2020. Call #: 811.6 J45a Subjects Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784 -- Poetry.   Women authors, Black -- Poetry.   Women slaves -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Poetry.   Slavery -- Massachusetts -- History -- 18th century -- Poetry.   American poetry -- 21st century. Series Wesleyan poetry. ISBN:  9780819579492 (hc) Description:  213 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's "age" -- the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley's relationship to black people and their individual "mercies" is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history."--Publisher. Genre:  American poetry. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 811.6 J45a Adult books Trace Add Copy to MyList

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